Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ats, and sleeps, and where guests are entertained. When theroom is required for the use of some fraternity, the family adjournsto other quarters, moving all its belongings. In this room the familywardrobe hangs on a pole suspended from the rafters. The more val-uable things, especially the ceremonial paraphernalia, are carefullywrapped and deposited in the storage rooms. As a rule the mills forgrinding meal are set up in the general living room. They consist ofthree or more slabs of stone, of differen
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . ats, and sleeps, and where guests are entertained. When theroom is required for the use of some fraternity, the family adjournsto other quarters, moving all its belongings. In this room the familywardrobe hangs on a pole suspended from the rafters. The more val-uable things, especially the ceremonial paraphernalia, are carefullywrapped and deposited in the storage rooms. As a rule the mills forgrinding meal are set up in the general living room. They consist ofthree or more slabs of stone, of different degrees of fineness of grain,set side by side at an angle of about 45° and separated by uprightslabs, the whole surrounded by other slabs, making an inclosure foreach mill. Most of the rooms are provided with fireplaces, of which there areseveral varieties. One style is formed by a wall several feet high and aSee i>. 168, note -. Onc man has been theonly member of this clan for the past ten or twelve years. i-This clan became extinct in 1902 by the death of an aged stevensox] SOCIAL CUSTOMS 293 of equal breadth extending at right angles from one of the longer wallstit the room, the projecting wall being so placed as to protect the fire-place from the doorway. A commodious mantel usually extends over apart of the fireplace, and on it rests the masonry chimney, reachingup through the roof, while the exterior chimney is composed of oldpottery vessels with perforated bottoms. Cooking vessels are set onstones in tin fireplaces; food is also cooked in the coals and room of every dwelling of any pretension has a fireplace ofpeculiar construction. It is from 6 to 12 feet wide and has a projectionabove like a Chinese awning. When the great ceremonial caldronsare used for the feasts, they are balanced on stones in this (wafer bread) is also baked in this fireplace upon highly polishedstone slabs. The room, however, is not exclusively set apart fo
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